Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-07-23
DOMESTIC.

According TO the Chicago showing, the
present stock Of wheat in sight amounts to
3, 957, 394 bushels OF corn to $500, 799
/ bushels and Of oats TO 3,432, O48 bushels.
| Last weeks changes IN the supplies show a
decrease of ], ADS, $50 bushels of wheat, &C.,
| 574 bushels Of corn, and $40, 422 bushels Of
oats.
Jacob Sharp's condition is growing worse,
and his death is believed to be imminent.
Prince Ferdinand has gone TO st. Peters
/ burg to ask the cars permission to take the
Bulgarian throne.
It is developed on the inquiry into the
/ Cass case at London that hundreds of wO-
men have been convicted in that city as i'm
proper characters upon the testimony of a
| single constable. This is a scandalous state
/ of affairs, and it is well that the Cass Incl
/ dent occurred, as 1t has directed public at
I tentiOn very sharply to the matter, and will
| probably bring about a reform. When a
/ London magistrate tells a woman that she
/ cannot walk unattended IN such a thorough
/ fare as Regent street without losing her
reputation, it is certainly high time for an
| oVerhauiing Of police methods in the me-
/ trOpOlis.
! Some time ago John H. Oliver, a justice
Of the peace in the District of Columbia,
/ was removed by the president. Oliver re-
/ fused to surrender the office, on the ground
that the law conferred the power of removal
/ exclusively upon the supreme court of the
district. The question was brought before
/ that tribunal, which has Just rendered a de-
/ cision sustaining the action Of the president
and granting writ Of custer against AIagis-
trate Oliver.
/ Frank Hugh O'Donnel has begun another
/ action Of libel against the London Times,
/ based upon the statements IN its ''Parnel-
/ ism and Crime" series Of articles.
The 'Sons of Temperance of the United
states and Canada are holding their annual
i meeting at Boston. The total membership
/ Of the order Is 81, 379
The liberals let the election for a member
Of parliament for Dublin university 20 by
default. The seat was secured by Madden.
| conservative.
| A peaceful settlement of the troubles in
! Crete Is believed to be assured.
/ A boat containing five men capsized in
Boston harbor; and all on board are sup
! posed to have persisted. Three English mid
| shipmen who vent sailing in Halifax harbor
/ have not been seen or heard from since, and
have been given up as lost.
W. K. Vanderbilt and party, who sailed
/ from New York July ., on the yacht AIva for
/ a tour OF the world, have arrived at Queens
/ town.
! The anniversary of the battle of the Bovine
/ was celebrated by the Orangemen at various
/ places IN Ireland, Canada, and the United
] Iestatlons at Belfast and at Paterson, New
Jersey, but the results were not serious.
| Seventy-hve immigrants, alleged to be
paupers, are detained at Castle Garden.
The total amount Of called bonds ont
standing is $500, 45O.
| 4 The biennial council Of the Union of
! american Hebrew Congregations is in ses-
sion at Pittsburg.
The police authorities of Chicago are pre-
/ parlng Tor vigorous raid upon the gamb-
/ lers and confidence men, under the vac
I fancy laws as soon as the races at Washing
/ lngton park end.
| A new ministry has been formed in Bul-
/ garia, with NJ. StoilOff as president of the
| council. All political prisoners have been
| ordered set at liberty.
| An epidemic of fiuz is prevailing in sever
/ al Virginia counties, with shocking NOR
taIlty, mainly among children.
| A New York dispatch presents some IN
/ terestlng information as to the labor situa-
ton in the south, obtained by extensive and
/ systematic inquiry. A good demand for
/ both skilled and unslilled labor is reDorfed
IN most Localities, and the general tenor of
/ the replies Is to the effect that the NEGROES.
| as a class, are untrustWorthy and unsafisfac'
| tory. A general lack of system in the time
/ and manner OF paying wages throughout
| the south appears to be one of the causes of
l the Generalization among labOrers. Upon
| the whole, the exhibit is not a fiattering one
either TO the whites or the negroes Of the
southern states.
! Sir John Pope Hennessy has been reinstat
ed as governor general of Mauritius.
convention Of the Dakota "divisionists''
IS IN session at Huron with a large attend
| ance- he movement aims at a division of
| the territory on the seventh standard parallel
states.
Mrs. James Kinney, of Joliet, Ill. gave
| birth 70 four babies Tuesday night none of
whom lived more than a few hours.
The refusal of a charter to the National
| assembly of iron and steel workers. recently
organized at Harrisburg, threatens to result
Labor. u
The strike of the engineers on the Brooklyn
elevated railroad continues. Very few
/ TRAINS were moved An effort is making to
settle the troubles through the medium of
she state board of arbitration, which was
established for such purposes, but has never
before been called upon to adjust a labor
difficulty.
Lieutenant Young, of the British army.
has been sentenced to eight months impris-
onment fof abductipg a 17-year-old girl.
Glinkas' new opera, 'Life for the Gar, -
has been produced at London with Albani
and Scalchi IN the cast. Its success was only
moderate.
The tone of the German press toward
France is increasing in bitterness. Reports
OF the persecution Of Germans in France are
gaining IN frequency.
Parnen Is TO be banqueted by the English
liberal members Of parliament on the 2Oth
instant.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland are al
Forest Port New York, guests of the
presidents brother, Rev. William N Cleye-
land. The first LADY, is suffering from a
very painful inflammation of the eye.
Lord Randolph Churchill created a sensa-
Lion II the house OF commons by a fierce
onslaught upon the leading features of the
Irish land bill. He declared that in Its
present from 1t would be an injury instead
OF benefit TO the measure. The govern
ment Is being urged by many conservatives
and un1on1sts to abandon all but the
tleaseholders' clause Of the bill until next
session.
The cattle quarantine proclaimed by the
Canadian government has been extended to
Manitoba and the Northwest territory.
Martyr McGlynn has received. stper post u
a message from Archbishop Corrigan an
nouneing the fact Of his communication.
The American Educational association has
elected Aaron Cove, Of Colorado, by a
unanimous VOTE president for the ensuing
year.
Justice O,Brien, in charging the grand jury
OF County Kerry, Ireland, declared that the
county was completely under the control OF
laWless NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., of course
the National league.
The sensational Pranzini murder trial al
Paris ended with verdict Of guilty. The
prisoner was sentenced 10 death He pro.
| tested his innocence after sentence had beer
pronounced. Pranzini murdered Mime
hegnault, her maid, and the latter's child.